Started As MOBILE PAYMENTS PLATFORMS

USPA NEWS - China's 'super apps' enable a variety of capabilities from third-party service providers within a single app including ride-hailing, ordering food delivery, messaging and mobile payments. Many of these services started primarily as mobile payments platforms which is why WeChat Pay and Alipay are currently the two largest apps in China, boasting a 90% and 94% usage rate by adult internet users, respectively, with 86% reporting that they use both, according to results from a survey by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence.

CHILDREN Losing FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES

USPA NEWS - On August 21, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), mayors from the across country sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) opposing the proposed revision of "broad based categorical eligibility" for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), in effect reducing access to nutrition benefits for vulnerable populations. The USDA's proposed changes to SNAP would impact 3.1 million Americans, including children, seniors, and people with disabilities. Additionally, an estimated 500,000 children are at risk of losing free school meals if USDA's proposed SNAP regulation takes effect.